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I don't know if it's the weather, nostalgia, or something else, but I woke up feeling like I wanted to do a Sunday Shuffle today. I barely open up iTunes anymore and haven't downloaded new music into it in a long time...which also means I haven't listened to a lot of the music I have stored there in a while. So, this is simultaneously old and new in a way and that feels interesting to me this morning. Let's get to today's ten... 1. Pulling On A Line/Great Lake Swimmers (6) - last played on 11/8/15 2. Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Of/U2 (7) - last played on 5/19/13 3. Us/Spoon (4) - last played on 11/24/17 4. Meat Is Murder/Shout Out Louds (6) - last played on 12/11/16 5. Different Days/Jason Isbell (11) - last played on 6/1/17 6. Another Way I Could Do It/Sloan (34) - last played on 6/22/18 7. Wizard Buys A Hat/The Mountain Goats (8) - last played on 2/12/17 8. Decks Dark/Radiohead (8) - last played on 7/10/18 9. Luisa/Jay Gonzalez (13) - last ...

I'm ready to put this feature on hiatus for a while, but I didn't want to end on #474 for now, which means I'm bringing back the "double issue" for today. The previous one was on Dec. 18 of last year. Normally, I do 20 songs on these editions, but since it's going away for a while, let's bump it to 25 today. Why not? 1. Price Tag/Sleater-Kinney (17) - last played on 3/24/17 2. The Indie Queens Are Waiting/Dan Mangan (5) - last played on 5/26/15 3. Ain't That Enough/Teenage Fanclub (31) - last played on 7/30/17 4. Dead Smile/Matthew Sweet (6) - last played on 9/10/17 5. Don't Need You/Alejandro Escovedo (4) - last played on 6/30/13 6. Jackson Cage (live)/Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band (2) - last played on 1/25/16 7. Beast/Ex Hex (20) - last played on 8/3/17 8. Be Good/Tokyo Police Club (8) - last played on 11/3/16 9. Accidental Life/Teenage Fanclub (15) - last played on 11/24/17 10. The Good That Won't Come Out/Rilo Kiley (...

I have a busy day ahead, so I'm just going to get right to today's ten... 1. AT&T/Pavement (14) - last played on 7/24/16 2. Streetlights/Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit (11) - last played on 3/15/17 3. The Government Darling/Spoon (12) - last played on 3/11/17 4. See My Way/Nude Beach (27) - last played on 9/27/17 5. Beach Baby/Bon Iver (4) - last played on 3/13/15 6. Radio/Teenage Fanclub (10) - last played on 10/15/16 7. With Or Without You/U2 (9) - last played on 12/18/16 8. Keep On Running/The Smithereens (11) - last played on 11/2/14 9. St. Apollonia/Beirut (5) - last played on 2/21/16 10. Got To Get You Into My Life/The Beatles (11) - last played on 1/29/17

I almost skipped the Shuffle today because the house needs to be put back together after yesterday's Popcorn Festival guests and for the fact that I want to be able to watch the NFL starting at noon. It's before 8:30, though, so I decided why not. Without further ado, here are today's ten... 1. Hair Down/Cold War Kids (6) - last played on 3/1/15 2. Everything You've Done Wrong/Sloan (12) - last played on 3/14/15 3. Little Maiden Gin/Haley Bonar (5) - last played on 1/27/13 4. Rollercoaster/M. Ward (5) - last played on 1/18/15 5. I Need My Girl/The National (24) - last played on 7/1/15 6. Sunstroke/Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit (10) - last played on 4/7/13 7. I Was A Fool/Roman Candle (8) - last played on 8/12/11 8. Gift (Live)/Sugar (1) - debut 9. Sunship/Hospitality (7) - last played on 7/21/15 10. Aging Faces/Losing Places//Broken Social Scene Presents: Kevin Drew (8) - last played on 3/20/15

HEAVY ROTATION #26 I've been meaning to get to a Heavy Rotation for a couple weeks now and just haven't managed it. I'm a little past the prime period I listened to these albums, which was probably mid-July to mid-August, but I did play them quite a bit during that time and wanted to talk about them. Jason Isbell/Something More Than Free - I was very excited for this album to come out. For starters, Isbell's previous album, Southeastern , was one of my favorite albums of 2013 (maybe even #1?). Secondly, the two songs that came out before the album's release, "24 Frames" and the title track, were great. Finally, all the early reviews were extremely positive. The good news is that I was not disappointed in the least; in fact, this album will probably make my top ten for the year. Take "24 Frames," for instance: "You thought God was an architect, now you know/He's something like a pipe bomb ready to blow/And everything you built that...